Members

Dr Chris Masters CBE is currently Chairman of Energy Assets Group PLC of and of the Festival City Theatres Trust in Edinburgh. He also holds a number of other non-executive directorships, including Speedy Hire PLC and The Crown Agents. He was previously Chief Executive of Christian Salvesen PLC, Executive Chairman of Aggreko plc and Chair of the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. An...

Chief Executive ThinkTank Maths Ltd Angela Mathis is Chief Executive and co-founder of Edinburgh-based ThinkTank Maths Ltd., a private company providing efficiency and innovation products to key industrial sectors leveraging high-level core skills in mathematics and related sciences. She is an elected Council member of ADS Scotland, the UK trade body for Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space...

George is a member of the Board of Directors of the James Hutton Institute and a former Governor of the Scottish Crop Research Institute and the John Innes Centre. He was President of the British Society for Plant Pathology, International Secretary and Council Member of the...

Professor Environmental Statistics, University of Glasgow Marian Scott is Professor of Environmental Statistics in the Department of Statistics at the University of Glasgow. Professor Scott’s research interests focus on the use of statistics in environmental science, policy and regulation. She is also a member of the University of Glasgow's Pain and Welfare Group, and has an interest in...

Managing Director of Sasol Technology UK Ltd Professor Tooze is Managing Director of Sasol Technology UK Ltd. He has worked in the chemical industry for 25 years, much of this for ICI, working in various businesses and locations but always in R&D. He joined Sasol Technology UK (STUK) in 2002 as Research Director and was made Managing Director in 2004. He has wide experience of...

Professor of Electronic Displays, School of Engineering and Electronics, University of Edinburgh Ian Underwood is Professor of Electronic Displays at The University of Edinburgh where he is currently Head of the Institute for Micro and Nano Systems (IMNS). He was a co-founder of MicroEmissive Displays (MED) and co-inventor of its P-OLED microdisplay technology. Major honors include - Ernst...

Robert Winston is the first Professor of Science and Society at Imperial College London, a university with one of the strongest international science bases, where he will focus on the crucial importance of improving communication and public engagement with science. Concentrating on advancing the understanding and...

Dr. Greig served nearly three decades with pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, most recently as President of SR One, GSK’s Corporate Venture Group following a term as President of GSK's Pharmaceuticals International. Following the merger of SmithKline Beecham with Glaxo Wellcome in 2000, Dr....

Muffy Calder OBE is Vice Principal of Science and Engineering and Professor of Computing Science at Glasgow University. She was Chief Scientific Adviser for Scotland and SSAC Co-Chair from 1 March 2012 till December 2014. She is a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award Holder and was a Royal Society Leverhulme Research Senior Fellow and Dean for Research in the College of Science and...

David Cumming (B.Eng. Glasgow, Ph.D. Cambridge) is the Professor of Electronic Systems at Glasgow University where he is the Head of Electronics and Nanoscale Engineering in the School of Engineering. He runs the Microsystem Technology (MST) group with 20 researchers. His research into lab-in-a-pill led to the university spin-out, Mode Diagnostics. He worked for Ion Torrent Inc. that...

Stuart Farmer is the headof Physics at Robert Gordon’s College, Aberdeen.

Following graduation from the University of St Andrews and Dundee College of Education, Stuart has taught in Kinross High School, Peterhead Academy, Alford Academy and Robert Gordon’s College. Throughout his teaching career Stuart has been actively involved in a wide variety of professional activities beyond day-...

Jon Oberlander holds a Chair in Epistemics in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. He has a BA in Philosophy from Cambridge, UK (1983), and a PhD in Cognitive Science from the University of Edinburgh (1987), and has been an EPSRC Advanced Fellow at the ESRC Human Communication Research Centre. He was founder-Director of the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science...